April 13th, 2009

More on The Northerners

OK, I know I said the next post would be about my new book, but I thought it would be worthwhile to talk about my experiences so far in a bit more detail: the writing process, the learning-about-publishing process, and the submission process.

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April 13th, 2009

A Blog Begins

Note: This is the transcribed introduction to the original post on Quinn Writes a Novel, which has gone from a hidden stand-alone journal to a tagged series on this blog.

Dear Internet,

As I write this, it’s April of 2009, I’m 26 years old and I’m trying to start a career as a novelist. By the time you – whoever you are – read this, I hope to have at least one book in print, or whatever has succeeded print in your crazy space-age future. This blog (online journal, really, but no one cares about that distinction anymore) will be a running account of how I got from here to there. Or how I failed spectacularly. The Internet has been an invaluable resource for me in my quest thus far to be an actual author-type-person, so out of philanthropy [...]